A Journey Toward Hope - Hinojosa, Victor; Voorhees, Coert
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Award-winning illustrator, acclaimed authors: 1. A Journey Toward Hope and the Spanish language edition, Una jornada hacia la esperanza, are a collaboration with Baylor University's acclaimed Social Innovation Collaborative program. Baylor's communications and public relations offices are coordinating publicity and media campaigns for Dr. Hinojosa. 2. The illustrator, Susan Guevara, is the award-winning illustrator of Chato's Kitchen by Gary Soto, and more than 20 other books for children. She aims to portray the characters with "the utmost dignity and purpose and humanity that they so richly…mehr

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Award-winning illustrator, acclaimed authors: 1. A Journey Toward Hope and the Spanish language edition, Una jornada hacia la esperanza, are a collaboration with Baylor University's acclaimed Social Innovation Collaborative program. Baylor's communications and public relations offices are coordinating publicity and media campaigns for Dr. Hinojosa. 2. The illustrator, Susan Guevara, is the award-winning illustrator of Chato's Kitchen by Gary Soto, and more than 20 other books for children. She aims to portray the characters with "the utmost dignity and purpose and humanity that they so richly deserve." An important resource for school / classroom use on the topic of immigation: 3. "Older elementary readers may reflect on the struggles that unaccompanied migrant children must endure to find a better life in the U.S. and reunite with their families." (School Library Journal) 4. "This picture book could be used in a fourth-grade social studies unit covering the family migration crisis. The back matter contains a note from Baylor University, creator of the Global Hunger and Migration Project. Thoughts on how to get involved and notes from the illustrator are also included." (School Library Journal) 5. "The backmatter explains the reasons for the book, helping to place it within the larger context of ongoing projects at Baylor University related to the migration crisis in Central America. An emotional entry point to a larger, necessary discussion on this complex and difficult subject." (Kirkus Reviews)
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Autorenporträt
Victor Hinojosa is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Honors Program at Baylor University where his primary research is in Latin American Politics and U.S.-Latin American relations. His articles have appeared in scholarly books and journals including Terrorism and Political Violence, Political Science Quarterly, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and more. Dr. Hinojosa currently directs the Baylor Migration Project, a social innovation laboratory at Baylor University that is bringing together an interdisciplinary team of faculty and students to address the challenges of child migration from Mexico and the Northern Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador). In collaboration with the Texas Hunger Initiative, Mennonite Central Committee, and others Dr. Hinojosa and his students are working to design interventions into this challenging humanitarian crisis. Dr. Hinojosa lives in Waco, Texas.